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Edinburgh passengers tell of long queues for buses as train strike deepens

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Published date23 June 2022
AuthorOleksandra Gumeniuk
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
The RMT members of Network Rail are protesting for fare wages and better work conditions on June 21, 23, and 25 causing significant disruptions to many journeys. On the second day of the strike, Edinburgh Live headed down to the bus station to ask the passengers how they were feeling about the train disruptions and the walkout. Some of the buses are also delayed and the queues are getting longer

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Caroline, emergency service worker, is travelling home to Dundee with her friend after attending Eagles concert. Her original plan was to take the train and now her bus journey is expected to be much longer and not that much cheaper. "It is my birthday today. Our train was cancelled and now our bus is delayed. I am not supporting the strikes today," she said.

Jeanette, a fertility councillor, had a similar situation. She is travelling to Cupar to pay her sister a visit and is supposed to sit through a much longer journey on the bus. The woman also expressed her thoughts about the strike: "Because they are earning so much money already, I think they are just being greedy."

An HR administrator from Aberdeen is planning her trip to Stirling. She, like many other passengers here, was supposed to take a train. "There is no train today hence...

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